Bitcoin is now the 6th largest currency in the world, and has overtaken the British pound sterling in monetary base size.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Tesla’s CFO is now called the “Master of Coin” as filed with the SEC.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Bitcoin has now transferred $3.5 Trillion across the world without the help of any banks or governments.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Network now transfers $137,000 per second around the world without requiring a bank, government, or third party.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Thirteen years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto gave us all some of the most important advice that has possibly ever been given...2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Nine years ago, Hal Finney wrote one of his last posts. He was a visionary, a cypherpunk, and the first person, besides Satoshi Nakamoto, to run bitcoin and support the network. 🧡2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Bitcoin is now worth more than the three largest payment services in the world, combined.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
This was the first website ever created to buy Bitcoin on, LibertyStandard. For a single dollar, you could have bought 1,578 bitcoin, worth $92,759,558 today.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
One sat, the smallest amount of bitcoin, is now worth the same amount as one Indonesian Rupiah 🇮🇩3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. Unlike the world today — Hal Finney, 17 years before receiving the first bitcoin transaction2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
This map shows distribution of reachable Bitcoin nodes in the world. Each one of these 10,000+ nodes has an entire copy of the network's ledger, with every single transaction ever sent recorded and accounted for. They enforce and validate the rules of Bitcoin.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
JP Morgan on El Salvador adopting Bitcoin. Notice the last line...3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Seems like a lot of energy usage for something that's closed after 5 pm and weekends.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Hal Finney sent this email only days after #Bitcoin was created. Mind you, a coin had no value at the time and cost $0.00. Something to think about...3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
The worlds first anonymous poker tournament was announced 11 years ago today. The prizes were 1000 bitcoin. That's $56,000,000 in today's value.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Eight years ago, Hal Finney wrote Bitcoin and me. He was the first person, besides Satoshi Nakamoto, to run Bitcoin and support the network.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Satoshi Nakamoto changing someone's mind about the energy consumption of Bitcoin in 2010.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Think you're bullish? Only a week after Bitcoin went live in 2009, and had no value whatsoever, someone had the incredible foresight to envision the market reaching $100 trillion. That person was Hal Finney. Something to think about...2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Goldman Sachs called Bitcoin not an asset class last year. Now, they added it to their weekly asset class report:3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
We will never know if Satoshi Nakamoto sent this email, but the point remains1yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
After Satoshi Nakamoto posted this 12 years ago today: 35,700 tons of gold have been found, $13 trillion dollars have been printed, and yet there is still only 21 million bitcoin.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
The carbon footprint of Bitcoin is only 2% (and shrinking) compared to the size of the military-industrial complex’s CO2 emissions.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Someone tried to sell their 10,000 bitcoins for $50 back in 2010. The highest bid was only $20. Today, those coins are now worth half a billion dollars.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on.” — Satoshi Nakamoto on Bitcoin in 20092yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Bitcoin took over 40 years of development and research to create.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Everyone thinks they are too late to bitcoin at first, and they never are.1yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
This is a visualization of the lightning ⚡️ network’s 16,000 public nodes and their 140,000 open channels.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Someone tried to buy a Platypus for 1,500 bitcoin in 2012. Today, that's over $86 million.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
As a thought experiment, imagine there was a base metal as scare as gold but...can be transported over a communications channel -- Satoshi Nakamoto explaining bitcoin1yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Texas Governor and two of his opponents in the 2022 gubernatorial election have now announced they're pro-Bitcoin and its innovation.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Aerial view of Riot Blockchain, the largest Bitcoin miner in Texas.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
A record 76.5% of all bitcoin has not moved in at least six months.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Retail users have now bought more bitcoin than institutions so far this year! The real occupy Wall Street.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Today, twelve years later there's still at most only 21 million coins, but now for 7.9 billion people. 🌎🌍🌏2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
No matter price, Bitcoin is the definition of consistency. This is every transaction sent on the network in the past 8 years:2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Only a single headline on the entire Internet covered the news of bitcoin reaching $1.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Back in 2014, someone apologized for being too sensationalistic after predicting bitcoin could reach $50,000. Now $50,000 feels normal. Something to think about...2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
The hash rate of bitcoin is: 225,000,000,000,000,000,000 computations EVERY second1yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Every 4 years, the issuance of new #bitcoin is cut in half. Here’s an amazing mathematical detail: 50% of all bitcoin is left to be mined after the 50 coin per block mining era. 25% of all #bitcoin is left to be mined after the 25 coin per block mining era. 12.5% of all...2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Bitcoin miners earned $1 billion last month. With no policy required, Bitcoin is running a monthly $1 billion incentive program to innovate and secure the most efficient sources of energy available.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Bitcoin tries to maintain 10 minutes between each block. This gives everyone in the world enough time to update their ledgers. Consistency is difficult when millions of machines are turned on and off every day. And yet, bitcoin is still becoming more reliable by the block1yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
This website gave out 5 bitcoin for free to anyone! It only required you complete a CAPTCHA to make sure you were not a bot! Created 12 years ago, the Bitcoin Faucet gave away over 19,700 bitcoin in total to help promote adoption, now worth half a BILLION DOLLARS.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
Africa is leading the world in peer-to-peer bitcoin trading volume growth this year so far.3yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
There's only 9.7% bitcoin left to be mined over the next 117 years.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
You’ve probably heard Bitcoin is “too volatile” to ever work. In reality, this is the value of the U.S. dollar over time2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Bitcoin
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. Unlike the world today, wrote Hal Finney, 17 years before receiving the first bitcoin transaction in history.2yr ⋅ DocumentingBitcoin ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
